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Journal Article
Kurt Vnnegut's \A Man Without a Country\
2023
Overview
It is the aim of this paper to shed light on how Kurt Vonnegut responds to the complexities and absurdities of life in A Man Without a Country (2005), by adopting a light-hearted tone that mitigates the traditional postmodernist pessimism. In its broadest sense, postmodernism adopts a skeptical standpoint towards established truths and assumptions whose authenticity has gone unquestioned for a long time. In Vonnegut's hands, this pessimistic stance is imbued with a humanist dimension, and a search for a glimpse of optimism in the midst of a highly fragmented and incoherent postmodernist world. Black humour, laughter, irony, a light-hearted tone and a tendency towards optimism are often the conduits he opts for to expose the inexplicable absurdities that run rife in his postmodernist world, while at the same time maintaining a hopeful outlook on life and humanity. Throughout the book, Vonnegut weaves a tapestry of his own personal views regarding disparate topics.
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جامعة القاهرة - فرع الخرطوم - كلية الآداب
